Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-30
IN THE NEW SOUTH.

what HI. ID. Lewis Says About Annls-
ton. Alabama-He Substantfates All
That Has Been Written About At
one of the Growing Places of the
South.Fifty Miles From TallapO0sa
The sOuth's New Era of Prosperity.
H. D. Lewis, of Howard avenue, returned
from trip to the new South last Thursday.
One of the places he visited, and which he
was specially interested in, was Admission,
Ala. He stayed there two days and made
careful observations, and finds the favorable
reports about it fully confirmed. Admission
is between forty and fifty miles from ITALIA
poosa to which place some Connecticut ex-
cursionists went few weeks ago. One of
Donald G. Mitehells sons has lately been
there. This place seven months ago had 1900
population, now it has 5000, and its growth
not spasmodic but steady and reliable, and it
has had no booming.
It was only within the last four years that
Admission was thrown open to the public.
The land up to that time was all held by one
company the Woodstock Ironcompany. They
had kept it simply to lay the basis of city
in the proper way; to SO arrange its drainage
that when it became city there would be
no trouble in keeping it clean and healthy;
and properly proportional, and to SO macad-
amize them that they would afford safe and
pleasant drives. Not only has all this been
done but q great deal more which could not
have been accomplished in any other way
Admission is now incorporated city, and
Mr. Lewis states that it is one of the most
prosperous and growing cities in the South.
New enterprises, principally manufacturing,
are being established there all the time. The
city is not dollar in debt. There are three
railroads-the Georgia Pacific, the Admission
and Cincinnati, and the East Tennessee. Vlr-
ginia and Georgia. The place has the
Brush electric lights and also perfect sys
tenn of waterworks with an inexhaustible
supply of the purest water.
1t is great mineral locality. Mr.. Lewis
showed a COURIER reporter specimens of fire
clay, paolen with which pottery is made, and
quartz which yields 5000 worth of gold per
ton. Admission possesses natural advantages
as manufacturing and business point, sur
passing those of any other place in the South.
The neighboring mountains possess exhaust
less supplies of coal easily and cheaply
mined. For miles around there is a magnif-
cent sweep of timber land.
The city has public and private schools,
churches of all denominations, two daily pa
pers, $4,000 acres of the best coal in the
State, rs, 900 acres of red and brown hema-
tite iron ores and numerous manufacturing
establishments, all with 81 ,325, 900 invested
in these enterprises without cent of indebt-
edness. It has for its object the manufac-
ture of all the iron made by its furnaces,
thereby keeping all the profits at home
Mr. Lewis was delighted with the perfect
system by which the streets and building lots
are laid out The air is at all times healthy
and invigorating. There is also cable street
railroad. Admission, although but four years
old, has all the improvements of the larger
cities. The streets are graded and macadam-
lied and are lighted by the Brush system of
electricity. Mr.. Lewis says the "Anniston
Inn" is most beautiful structure. There is
an opera house there. The streets are neat
and clean; the stores are solid, commodious
brick buildings. Everywhere about the
place are briskness and prosperity shown.
The schools are controlled by the Mayor and
Common Council.
The climate there is well balanced and has
no equal in the South for moderate tempera-
ture, both in summer and winter It would
naturally be supposed by northern people
that it is dreadfully hot there during the
summer. This is not so. The highest de-
gree of heat registered at the inn during this
last summer-the hottest known for years
was 90 degrees, which was 10 degrees lower
than that reported by any town in that
State The nights are always cool and re-
freshing, even during the warmest season of
the year. 1t is seldom that there is whole
day when the sun is obscured by clouds.
Snow is q curiosity, SO seldom does it fall.
High winds are unusual, although there is
an almost constant breeze from some quar-
ter.
The residences are attractive, some of them
elegant and surrounded by ornamental
grounds. The beautiful valley in which An
niston is situated lies 800 feet above tide
water, with the Blue Mountain range tower
ing 900 feet above the valley. Pure air,
good water and salubrious climate are all
to be found in Admission. Harry Stevens of
this city, intends shortly to remove to An
niston. Mr.. Lewis has been there and re-
turns home with the idea that it is to be one
of the large cities in the South before many
years.
FAIR HAVEN GRADE CROSSINGS.
The Railroad Commissioners Give
Hearing but Ex-Governor IngersOlI
objects tie 1t on the Ground of Jurfs-
dIcGion-Postponed Until December
18th.
Railroad Commissioners Woodruff. Sey
mour and Hayward went over to Fair Haven
yesterday to hold hearing on the pro-
posed bridging of the Shore Line railroad
tracks at Center street. The commissioners
met the board of selectmen. The town was
represented By Ex-Governor Ingersoll, the
railroad company by ex-Judge Lynde Harri-
son and the interests of the petitioners were
cared for by Attorney Henry D. Russell.
TfeslQ6nG Clark, G0Q0ral SUPERINTENDENT
Shepard and Superintendent Allen of the
Shore Line division were present. Ex-Gov-
ernor Ingersol1 announced that the railroad
commissioners had no jurisdiction in the
matter. Attorney Russell took the opposite
side of the question and lengthy legal bat
tie ens1ed. The hearing was postponed until
December 14th, at which time it will take
place in the bar library.
This proposed bridge has been the occa=
sion of much talk in Fair Haven East The
bridge as proposed is to cross the tracks in
such manner as to do away with three
grade crossings. The lay of the land is very
peculiar. About fifty feet from the junction
of Grand avenue and Center street the road
swings round in a circle, crossing the street
and avenue. Another street also crosses the
/ tracks between the other thoroughfares. The
residents of Fair Haven Heights have for a
| long time been anxious to have Grand ave-
nue. thrown open to the public, but the railroad
would not consent to another grade crossing
! and it was proposed to bridge the street
| This scheme was opposed by number of
Fair Haven residents at hearing held some
time ago on the ground that it would be a
| needless expense to the taxpayers, but at
| that hearing the railroad commissioners
ordered the bridge. The matter was, how
| ever, contested in the courts, and yester-
days hearing was in consequence of the com
l test.
entertainments.
LOVE IN HARNESS.
Though at times literally having to have
l thar 1inas shorfad of f11aro nv ha T,rornrtar